Delaware Park waiting on Rachel

You can understand this: the people at Delaware Park want to have Rachel Alexandra in the starting gate Sunday for the Grade II, $1 million Delaware Handicap.

“On a normal day for the Delaware Handicap, we would get between 12 and 14,000 people,” Chris Sobocinski, the Racing Information Coordinator at the track, said Tuesday. “If we got her, that number could easily double. Or triple.”

Sobocinski, like the rest of, were waiting for word on where and when the next start for the 3-year-old filly would be. Jess Jackson, the wine man from Californina, has been silent on the decision, although he will have to make one pretty soon about Delaware.

The Delaware Handicap, for fillies and mares aged 3 and up, will be drawn on Wednesday. The track was scheduled to take entries for the Delaware Oaks, for 3-year-old fillies, on Tuesday. Rachel is nominated for that race but no one expects her to run there.

OK, your turn. If you owned Rachel, where would you run her next? Delaware Handicap? Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont? Haskell at Monmouth? Wait for Saratoga?